Review of Ariana Den Bleyker's New Wave Fabulism novelette Finger : Knuckle : Palm by Paul Edward Costa at Entropy.Excerpt:“Finger: Knuckle: Palm” intricately creates an immersive world which makes the text become the thing it describes. Samuel Beckett said once that James Joyce’s “writing is not about something, it is that something itself.” In fact, the very best art achieves this distinction. The Christopher Nolan film “Memento” makes the viewer truly experience the memory loss from which the protagonist suffers. The audience does not simply observe his ailment because they also participate in it. Without making too audacious or lavish a comparison, “Finger: Knuckle: Palm” produces a very comparable effect. It cannot be consciously stated that this novelette is about a journey into the depths of the subconscious mind because reading “Finger: Knuckle: Palm” makes one feel that they are immersed in that journey themselves. Yet, because this work is something and is not about something, we do not have the usual expository paragraphs and explanatory dialogue to set things up, let us get our footing, and explain what is happening before it happens.

Ariana Den Bleyker's New Wave Fabulist novelette, Finger: Knuckle: Palm put out by LucidPlay Publishing is available in print or as an ebook for low prices. The narrator is under hypnosis. "It’s a thrill and a treat to read a writer who isn’t afraid of pushing their reader to the edge by testing their audience’s limits. Only by being stretched further than we think we can go do we experience new and original ideas/feelings. The writer in such an instance needs to take their reader out to a place where there are no stars, where they must rely only on the unique strength of their singular vision to try and light the way." Paul Edward Costa's review at Entropy Prologue

“Waking up in darkness isn’t like waking up at all. I can’t, can’t feel. I’m aware of me without sensing myself.”

“Relax. Start from the beginning.”

“Everything’s, frozen, disjointed.”

“Do you know who you are?”

“I know nothing. I see, smell, feel nothing.”

“These things take time. You’ll get there.”

“I want to see. Why do I know what seeing is but can’t see?”

“Visualize yourself. Don’t worry. It’ll come. You should learn to embrace what you have, that you can think, that you are.”

LucidPlay Publishing, in a low-key way, has been expanding from just free to read e-books to print. Currently, there is a new chapbook anthology free to read at the publishing site. It's no so much a business venture as my philanthropy, as it's costly to mail these full color books to contributors around the world. But doing so seems to be the most open hearted response I can have to them allowing me to feature their art and writing.

There have even been sales, and any other purchases that anyone would like to make would be greatly appreciated as a way to slowly begin to pay back some of the expense of creating the print version of this book which hundreds of people are reading for free. And perhaps some of the later books will make up the difference, if people pitch in and purchase them, as well. The next ones planned are single-person literary chapbooks.

The chapbooks are printed and bound at Book Patch, and individual orders can be made through their site, with the link given on the website. However, their shipping prices are prohibitive for International sales, so I bought some to have on hand to turn around and ship overseas at a 10th of the price they are asking.

I'll be mailing the books next to reviewers who have a history of being able to place reviews in magazines, and to magazines who have them up for review. If you are interested in having this full color glossy weighty paged little show-book, let me know, and I can send you one.

Fantasy of consciousness, Cosamodo's Travels. This is a beautiful philosophical book that explores expansiveness in surprising ways. A fresh new voice, Paul Barnett should turn into a cult figure, if people discover his work.

Tantra Bensko

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I'm currently not writing experimental fiction but psychological suspense. My series of seven books, The Agents of the Nevermind, launches this spring with a novella, Glossolalia: A Psychological Suspense Novella. I would adore it if you'd read. If you appreciate the years of work I put into this site, you could repay me by buying a book, and ideally reviewing it on Amazon. You'd have my immense gratitude.

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